Hey! Do you know what a Concise Guide is? According to Princeton, concise means "expressing much in few words." This means that a concise guide, basically, is a short one (for those of you wondering, Princeton defines guide as "something that offers basic information or instruction") You will need a few tools: 1) FireFox Internet Browser 2) The famous AdBlock 3) And the handiest little tool, Notepad++ (you may have to click the 'direct link' on that page) Like always, you'll be using free software, so it's super easy! Now you are ready to get down to the nitty gritty process Step One: Finding Blockable Items 1) For this, you go to JellyNeo's Advanced Search 2) Fill this form out as you see fit, to find the items you want to block, possible methods include: 3) Make sure you have 75 items per page 4) Access the Source Code (right click or Ctrl+U) 5) Find "Search Results" (Ctrl+F) 6) Copy everything from the first "<td valign" to where the patterns ends: This shows only ten items, for space reasons 7) Paste this into Notepad++, go to the next page of results, and repeat until you have all pages Important Note: JellyNeo is not always accurate! You will spend a long time fine tuning your list to perfection, because these prices are rarely updated. They do, however, provide a good general outline to the price you can expect to sell your item for. Also, if you sort by price, unpriced items wont show up! Items may not be priced because they are new, have a fluctuating market, or simply haven't stocked often. You might end up seeing one of these items, buy it, and then find out it is not profitable - at this time you can manually add a filter to avoid it in the future. Step Two: Formatting This part of the process is magical, thanks to Notepad++ 1) Ctrl+H pops up the replace screen - enter the settings below: This separates the image code from it's front side surroundings and adds a | for formatting 2) Now replace "" borde" (quotation [space] "borde") with "\r\n" (same as before, without |) 3) Select ALL your text with Ctrl+A 4) In the menu bar, under TextFX and TextFX Tools, check that "+Sort ascending" is unchecked and that "+Sort outputs only UNIQUE" is checked, and click "Sort lines case sensitive (at column)" Step Three: Loading The List Congrats! Now you get to block all those items in one fell swoop, which is much faster than manually adding them! 1) Open FireFox 2) Access AdBlock Preferences, I do this by right clicking the AdBlock symbol next to my search bar and clicking Preferences, or using the hotkey Ctrl+Shift+E 3) Click into your filters area, where you will see filters such as "|http://www.neopets.com/images/oldmen_nao.gif" 4) Copy the list from your Notepad++ document, and paste here [Only the properly formatted ones, |http://www] 5) Click Apply, Click OK - then refresh and see all the glorious white space * This method requires you to update your filters as new items come out. If you actively restock, you should be able to easily do this; you simply add the items to the filters as they come out and prove to bring in no profit. It should also be noted that AdBlock blocks certain image addresses. Some items share the same image link, though, such as Non Magical Apple Chia Pop and Magical Apple Chia Pop, or Blue Gelert Plushie and Magical Blue Gelert Plushie. You must make the decision, do you block both - even though one is worth millions? Or do you learn to ignore the common item? If you guys experience any problems, please tell me! neopets-cheating-f80/how-to-make-your-own-ab-list-in-less-than-2-minutes-t30812.html neopets-cheating-f80/semi-legit-restocking-t27548.html The first link is what this method is based on. The second link is an example of what this guide would be used for - blocking unprofitable images in shops to either help a manual restocker identify profitable items or to speed up page load times for GM scripts.
Richy you always have the best timing! I was just talking about this the other day. Can't wait until you actually fill in the most important step in this process so I can actually use it. XD
Thanks Richy!! This guide is going to come in very handy! I want to try to learn to restock using adblock to work my way to legitly restocking... it's a slow process and I kind of started backwards. XD
sorry for the grave dig but it seems to me that this does not work in the new adblock pro. when i paste it into adblock instead of separating all of them it just makes one big filter that ends up doing nothing. any ideas?
Did you replace: Code (Text): "><image src=" with \r\n| ? If you don't use the \r\, Notepad++ doesn't \R\eturn, or hit enter between items for example: does your .txt file look like this? Spoiler |http://images.neopets.com/items/win_chicken_veggies.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/win_carnupepper_soup.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/wibreth_red.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/wetsnowballwand.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/werhond.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/warchias.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/wandoflight.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/violet_velvet_chair.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/veenix.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/vday_ring2.gif |http://images.neopets.com/items/vday_ring1.gif If your .txt file looks like that, then I can look into AdBlock to see if that's the problem... but if it doesn't look like that, there was an error previously in the process